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Hi,

there are mods (mostly those that set player.walking_state) where the latency hiding does more harm than good (see also). It would be great if there was a option in the game client settings to disable the latency hiding on this client altogether.

Especially in low-latency environments like local networks, the introduced latency is actually much less worse than the jumpyness in conjunction with walking_state.

Please do add that checkbox

Best regards,
Windfisch

I'm not sure you can just hide the latency hiding stuff, I'm fairly sure this is part of the bigger picture to let the independent deterministic simulations remain state synchronised.

The latency hiding mechanism is usually a purely cosmetic graphical thing: In the cheapest implementation, you just trigger the animations and update the sprite positions based on your local input (but don't touch the simulation state), leading to latency-free walking, but noticeable lag when picking up, mining, doing anything that affects the simulation state. (Shooting )

The more sophisticated (and computationally expensiv) variant can pre-roll the game state based on the assumption that our extrapolation is correct, and revert the state once we discover our assumption has been wrong. But that throws away a lot of UPS just for latency hiding, I suspect this isn't the case here.

Latency hiding very visibly turns off as soon as you start shooting, or enter a car. Probably on entering trains too just that it's less obvious due to automatic driving.

I'd still prefer a solution that makes writing to walking_state universally feasible instead of some client-based per-player opt-in system. E.g. by autodisabling latency hiding as soon as walking_state is beeing written too. Shooting behavior in latency state demonstrates that the engine is infact very capable of turning hiding on/off instantly.